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"For smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present."

She is like the blind Seer of Thebes Teiresias, who sees more in his blindness than those blinded by their own unwillingness to see.

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
Pablo Neruda

“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
— Stanley Fish

"And none can be called happy until that day when he carries His happiness down to the grave in peace."

“Alas, how terrible is wisdom
when it brings no profit to the man that's wise!
This I knew well, but had forgotten it,
else I would not have come here.”

“Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.”

“الناس من خوف الذل في ذل ومن خوف الفقر في فقر”

"لا تعلو الورقة على الضمير، لا يحتاج الضمير الحي إلى ورقة ، لكن ترتفع الورقة على كل القيم الإنسنية حين يموت الضمير، تتحول السياسة و الانتخابات و الزواج و الحب و الإخلاص إلى سوق ، إلى بورصة ، يباع فيها كل شئ بالورقة و الأوراق . "

"In love we find out who we want to be.
In war we find out who we are."

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" و لكن العامة لا تعيش بالتقوى. العامة تحتاج إلى الخوف لكي تعرف التقوى. "

أنا الملك جئت و لما المرأة ذهبت .. و لما تفرق الذين اجتمعوا حولي .. و لما وجدت نفسي وحيداً اكتملت في تمامي.